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Both men after killing the women keep an object in their place. The Duke with the painting and the cottager with Porpyria's corpse, these objects display the control the men have over the perfect woman they always wanted, who are in fact only objects.

He sees himself as above the law, that no one could prosecute him for killing. The Duke has moved on from his late wife and is already in search of a new wife, this shows he did not necessarily love his late wife but that he wanted to have a

He makes the iambic pentameter couplets seem more like a conversation and makes it informal by asking is listener question. ' How shall I say?' who'd stoop to blame this sort of trifling?' 'But who passed without much the same smile?'

There are also many differences between the two murderers. Exploring their lifestyles, we can see that the murderer in 'Porphyria's Lover' is quite lazy, leaving Porphyria to make "...the cheerless grate blaze up..." instead of doing it himself. In contrast, the killer in ''Human Interest'' says "I'd slogged my guts

The duke obviously lives in grand finery. He invites the emissary to look at 'My last Duchess painted on the wall.' The Duke in 'My Last Duchess' was modelled on Alfonzo II, the fifth duke of Ferrara in Renaissance Italy.

all the decisive decisions now, this parallels treatment of the Duchess by the duke as he states ' I gave commands'. The lover is suddenly overwhelmed with possessiveness for Porphyria; he realises that she will never be his. His love seems to intense and too strong for his control, the

It made me think about loneliness as a whole, how people feel in a situation where there is nobody there to talk to. Imagine how the cat feels without the goldfish to terrify. A bit like the persona with nothing left to kill.

We can ascertain this from his uncertainty as to whether she will come or not: 'So, she was come through wind and rain, Be sure I looked up at her eyes Happy and proud; at last I knew Porphyria worshipped me...'